I now have confirmation from outside the matrix of the internet search robots that the concept of mockoblog exists!
I had applied to the blog catalog thingy to list my blog. It took their robot over 48 hours to come up with this email:
<<BlogCatalog – Submission Declined: Angle Blog – World’s 1st MockoBlog?
| From: | BlogCatalog ([blablabla]@blogcatalog.com) | ||
| You may not know this sender. Mark as safe / Mark as Junk.[My inbox was not smart enough to know whether this was junk or not. I do. Do you?] | |||
| Sent: | Sunday, 14 June 2009 6:47:27 a.m. | ||
| To: | [administrator] ([me]@[something].com) | ||
| Dear [administrator],
Thank you for submitting your blog Angle Blog – World’s 1st MockoBlog (http://www.angle.co.nz) to BlogCatalog. Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory. Your blog was declined for the following reason:
If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ([their address]) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/ideas please feel free to contact us. Thanks, * Not only that I like the syle of this email which is clearly better than the one used by my bank in its monthly statements; also: I’m over the Moon! I have confirmation from one of the most qualified authorities in the blogosphere that my blog is not a blog. (I never thought it was.) If it’s not a blog, it must be something else. Since nobody know what it is and the blog catalog doesn’t come with an explanation or a definition, it means the mockoblog is just what it says it is: a mockoblog, for the time being THE mockoblog. |
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However, I’m sorry for the blog catalog people or robots (or a bit of a clone of both – that’s also a new concept, as a respectable clone is usually a copy of only one thing). They are shooting their own foot with great precision by not being part of history in the mocking. Leave me out of the blogosphere (your entrance into that sphere, rather) and you condemn yourself to stay forever outside history. To be more precise: when the non-books of the future are publishing the history of everything, the mockoblog will have its place (I guess somewhere close to the hieroglips, not far from the first CD created by Sony and Philips and perhaps the author of the 1st mockoblog will be found in the same footnote as John Barth or in the very close vicinity of Homer, Dante and Cervantes, not to mention Shakespeare, Roger Waters and some guys who are yet to be born). This reminds me to change my pseudo-name on the mockoblog from the boring and technical “Administrator” into what this (oh, so humble!) author is: “The Creator”. (“Technical support! How do I do that?” – – – Static, then a louder male voice from among a few female little voices – – – “No, you can’t! Over!”)
Anyhow, I had even posted a ranking system from their website on my site. By the way, you may have noticed that normally there are no active links in the body of my posts, if you wish to go to a source I may mention, you have to copy and paste it in your browser, as I don’t believe in free intertextuality at such level as to allow my readers to escape the mockoblog and evade into the unknown. But I digress. I had that link there and from it my readers could be practically sent at warp speed into the blog catalog. Not another window or tab, just out of the mockoblog and into completely something else, highly populated and less original space: a list. It’s like dreaming of a large magnolia in your cosy bed with your cuddly lover wrapped around you and suddenly waking up on a dissection table in some rusty UFO. That’s what links do. (Exceptions are those links that are plane and obvious adverts which may happen to be of interest for the reader of the page, if the reader makes a voluntary decision and click on them, thus also contributing sometimes to sponsoring the actual site the advert is on. But I’m digressing again.)
No worries mate! I’m removing your link altogether. Thanks for letting me know I’m too different to be one of yours. Cheers blog catalog! See you later!